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Europe, A Poem?

Just back from Europe — where the elections for the European Parliament are heating up — though “heat” may be the wrong image to conjure, or seems only appropriate for the most rightwing fascoid parties who see in these elections their chance to throw their weight around paradoxically exactly on that platform their hyper-nationalistic ideology wants to abolish: the post-nationalist EEC institutions in Strasbourg & Bruxelles. Finally Hungarian, French, English, Italian & other fascists can sit together on the same branch they are trying to saw off. And you think America is in trouble?

Meanwhile the German newspaper Die Zeit has gathered some poems by more or less noteworthy poetas on the subject of that old broad-faced cow:

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Europe’s right wing wackos are rising to challenge the left wing wackos who have been running most of Europe for so long. As for the good old U.S. of A., the real troubles have yet to begin. Not even Greece or France can match the debt run up by Obama. By the inglorious end of his 2 terms Obama will have amassed more debt than all previous U.S. Presidents combined. Now there’s a legacy for the youth of today and tomorrow and tomorrow. Hard to conceive of Europe’s very loose right wing nuts ever matching that feat but, no doubt, they will try. Its a good time to be old and retired here in the frozen North!